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1 | AN ACT concerning elections.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | 8-8 as follows:
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6 | (10 ILCS 5/8-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-8)
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7 | Sec. 8-8. Form of petition for nomination. The name of no | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | candidate for nomination shall be printed
upon the primary | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | ballot unless a petition for nomination shall have been
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10 | in his behalf as provided for in this Section. Each such | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | petition
shall include as a part thereof the oath required by | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | Section 7-10.1 of
this Act and a statement of candidacy by the | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | candidate filing or in
whose behalf the petition is filed. This | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | statement shall set out the
address of such candidate, the | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | office for which he is a candidate, shall
state that the | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | candidate is a qualified primary voter of the party to
which | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | the petition relates, is qualified for the office specified and
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18 | has filed a statement of economic interests as required by the | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | Illinois
Governmental Ethics Act, shall request that the | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | candidate's name be
placed upon the official ballot and shall | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | be subscribed and sworn by
such candidate before some officer | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | authorized to take acknowledgment of
deeds in this State and | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | may be in substantially the following form:
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1 | State of Illinois)
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2 | ) ss.
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3 | County ..........)
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4 | I, ...., being first duly sworn, say that I reside at .... | ||||||
5 | street in
the city (or village of) .... in the county of .... | ||||||
6 | State of Illinois;
that I am a qualified voter therein and am a | ||||||
7 | qualified primary voter of
.... party; that I am a candidate | ||||||
8 | for nomination to the office of ....
to be voted upon at the | ||||||
9 | primary election to be held on (insert date);
that I am legally | ||||||
10 | qualified to hold such office and
that I have filed a statement | ||||||
11 | of economic interests as required by the
Illinois Governmental | ||||||
12 | Ethics Act and I hereby request that my name be
printed upon | ||||||
13 | the official primary ballot for nomination for such office.
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14 | Signed ....................
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15 | Subscribed and sworn to (or affirmed) before me by ...., | ||||||
16 | who is to me
personally known, on (insert date).
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17 | Signed .... (Official Character)
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18 | (Seal if officer has one.)
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19 | The receipt issued by the Secretary of State indicating | ||||||
20 | that the candidate has filed the statement of economic | ||||||
21 | interests required by the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act must | ||||||
22 | be filed with the petitions for nomination as provided in | ||||||
23 | subsection (8) of Section 7-12 of this Code.
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24 | All petitions for nomination for the office of State | ||||||
25 | Senator shall be signed
by 1% or 1,000
, whichever is greater, | ||||||
26 | of the qualified primary electors of
the candidate's party in |
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1 | his legislative district, except that for the first
primary | ||||||
2 | following a redistricting of legislative districts, such | ||||||
3 | petitions
shall be signed by at least 1,000
qualified primary | ||||||
4 | electors of the candidate's
party in his legislative district.
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5 | All petitions for nomination for the office of | ||||||
6 | Representative in the General
Assembly shall be signed by at | ||||||
7 | least 1% or 500
, whichever is greater, of
the qualified | ||||||
8 | primary electors of the candidate's party in his or her
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9 | representative district, except that for the first primary | ||||||
10 | following
a redistricting of representative districts such | ||||||
11 | petitions shall be signed
by at least 500
qualified primary | ||||||
12 | electors of the candidate's party in
his or her representative | ||||||
13 | district.
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14 | The State Board of Elections shall not accept for filing | ||||||
15 | any petition for nomination for the office of State Senator or | ||||||
16 | Representative in the General Assembly if the petition contains | ||||||
17 | less than 10% of the number of signatures required by this | ||||||
18 | Section.
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19 | Opposite the signature of each qualified primary elector | ||||||
20 | who signs a
petition for nomination for the office of State | ||||||
21 | Representative or State
Senator such elector's residence | ||||||
22 | address shall be written or printed. The
residence address | ||||||
23 | required to be written or printed opposite each qualified
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24 | primary elector's name shall include the street address or | ||||||
25 | rural route
number of the signer, as the case may be, as well | ||||||
26 | as the signer's county
and city, village or town.
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1 | For the purposes of this Section, the number of primary | ||||||
2 | electors shall
be determined by taking the total vote cast, in | ||||||
3 | the applicable district,
for the candidate for such political | ||||||
4 | party who received the highest number
of votes, state-wide, at | ||||||
5 | the last general election in the State at which
electors for | ||||||
6 | President of the United States were elected.
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7 | A "qualified primary elector" of a party may not sign | ||||||
8 | petitions for or be a
candidate in the primary of more than one | ||||||
9 | party.
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10 | In the affidavit at the bottom of each sheet, the petition | ||||||
11 | circulator,
who shall be a person 18 years of age or older who | ||||||
12 | is a citizen of the United
States, shall state his or her | ||||||
13 | street address or rural route
number, as the
case may be, as | ||||||
14 | well as his or her county, city, village or
town, and state; | ||||||
15 | and
shall certify that the signatures on that sheet of the | ||||||
16 | petition were signed in
his or her presence; and shall certify | ||||||
17 | that the signatures are genuine; and
shall certify
that to the | ||||||
18 | best of his or her knowledge and belief the persons so signing | ||||||
19 | were
at the time of signing the petition qualified primary | ||||||
20 | voters for which the
nomination is sought.
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21 | In the affidavit at the bottom of each petition sheet, the | ||||||
22 | petition
circulator shall either (1) indicate the dates on | ||||||
23 | which he or she
circulated that sheet, or (2) indicate the | ||||||
24 | first and last dates on which
the sheet was circulated, or (3) | ||||||
25 | certify that none of the signatures on the
sheet were signed | ||||||
26 | more than 90 days preceding the last day for the filing
of the |
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1 | petition. No petition sheet shall be circulated more than 90 | ||||||
2 | days
preceding the last day provided in Section 8-9 for the | ||||||
3 | filing of such petition.
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4 | All petition sheets which are filed with the State Board of | ||||||
5 | Elections shall
be the original sheets which have been signed | ||||||
6 | by the voters and by the
circulator, and not photocopies or | ||||||
7 | duplicates of such sheets.
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8 | The person circulating the petition, or the candidate on | ||||||
9 | whose behalf
the petition is circulated, may strike any | ||||||
10 | signature from the petition,
provided that:
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11 | (1) the person striking the signature shall initial the | ||||||
12 | petition at
the place where the signature is struck; and
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13 | (2) the person striking the signature shall sign a | ||||||
14 | certification
listing the page number and line number of | ||||||
15 | each signature struck from
the petition. Such | ||||||
16 | certification shall be filed as a part of the petition.
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17 | (Source: P.A. 94-645, eff. 8-22-05.)
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18 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
19 | becoming law.
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